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She had seen the unspeakable.She had learned the unknowable.Now, she would fight the invincible.

In the third and final installment of the Providence series, Nina Grey will marry the wrong man, carry the child that was never supposed to be born, and fight a war she can’t win. Faced with the impossible task of protecting his new wife and unborn child against the throes of Hell, Jared Ryel is allowed no mistakes. Pressured to return the Naissance de Demoniac to Jerusalem, he revisits St. Ann’s to learn the answers were in front of him all along. Together, they must survive long enough to let their child save them—and the world.

Turn out alright again? As if! Yes, Dean gets resurrected by the angels and reunited with Sam, but the time between took a toll on both of them. Sam stayed with Ruby who gets him hooked on demon blood to make him more powerful. Now he's able to exorcise demons with his powers, but it really made him an addict. Dean, while in hell, broke under the torture and became a master of the craft himself, thus breaking the first of the 66 seals needed to free Luzifer from hell. That's right, freeing the fallen angel, master devil himself. There's a number of biblic rituals/happenings that can be used as seals, any 66 of them broken will do.

Lucky for the Winchesters, they got angels on their side to help them. Well, at least some. Castiel, the one who rescued Dean from hell, issues warnings and a helping hand. The boys also find a woman named Anna in a mental health institute, who was talking about the 66 seals and is able to tune in with the angels' mental radio. And that's because she's actually an angel herself, fallen and seperated from her grace. Sam, Dean and Castiel help to recover it, but have to go up against other angels in order to accomplish the task. The good guys, my arse! Anna encourages Castiel to listen to his heart, bringing him fully over on the Winchester's side.

In the end, the boys can't stop all the seals from breaking, leaving only über-demon Lilith. Thinking they have to stop her from breaking the final seal, the boys kill her, thus breaking the last seal and freeing Luzifer. Furthermore, it turns out it was Ruby's plan all along to make Sam powerful enough for the task, so it's a good thing she got what she deserved in the end.

Blurb: Things are not perfect. Nina's wound healed and she's about to go back to Brown for the new semester, but everything's a mess. Ryan left to enlist, only sending her a letter, and her friends blame her for it, of course, just as much as she blames herself.
With Ryan gone, Claire is gone too, so Bex tries to fill in a bit, especially when Jared has to leave Nina because she's constantly having horrible nightmares about her father's death, and she only can sleep through the night with her love gone. At first, Nina thought they were just dreams, although quite horrible ones, but then she discovers that Archangel Gabe, Jared's father, tries to tell her something: to get back Shax's demon book at all costs. But what could be in there that could be a key to saving Nina's life?

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Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch--and there's always a catch--is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching a mysterious disappearance that has remained unsolved for nearly four decades. With few other options, he accepts and enlists the help of investigator Lisbeth Salander, a misunderstood genius with a cache of authority issues. And you really don't want to mess with the girl with the dragon tattoo.

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Very long-winded and pretty conflicted, but great. It definitively made me want to read the book, although really just to get to know main character Lisbeth better. I'm a little sorry to admit it, but the whole frame story in itself became very secondary until the end, and even than could be overlooked if you wanted to. I don't want to go so far as saying it was boring, but it sure could've used some more spice. Well, maybe it was just the movie, but I kinda doubt it...

Rooney Mara surely has shown that Lisbeth isn't someone to mess with, displaying her with a dark resolve that scares if you were sitting on the receiving end, and thus hit the tone, the atmosphere of the whole film right on the head. Her actions speak louder than words, she's definitvely something else, an extreme, but let's blame that on her genius, shall we? Lisbeth is definitively a character that you don't come a cross very often and that sticks in your head, so I'm actually looking forward to meeting her in the books (when/if I get around to them) and the other two movies that belong to the trilogy.

Daniel Craig as Mikael... Well, let's say I think the role didn't require too much from him. At least his display leads to believe so. Seriously, I'm starting to think Daniel Craig is the male equivalent to Kristen Stewart. However, I'd be happy to find out there's more to Mikael's character in the book, and what exactly to make of his weird relationship with Lisbeth.

Cassandra Caravello is one of Renaissance Venice’s lucky elite: with elegant gowns, sparkling jewels, her own lady’s maid, and a wealthy fiancé, she has everything a girl could desire. Yet ever since her parents’ death, Cassandra has felt trapped, alone in a city of water, where the dark and labyrinthine canals whisper of escape. When Cass stumbles upon a murdered woman—practically in her own backyard—she’s drawn into a dangerous world of courtesans, killers, and secret societies. Soon, she finds herself falling for Falco, a mysterious artist with a mischievous grin... and a spectacular skill for trouble. Can Cassandra find the murderer, before he finds her? And will she stay true to her fiancé, or succumb to her uncontrollable feelings for Falco?Beauty, love, romance, and mystery weave together in a stunning novel that’s as seductive and surprising as the city of Venice itself.

Why I am lurking on this: Uhm.. hello? Venice? Renaissance? Does it need any more than that? For me personally, it doesn't. Of course the gowns and the murder and Falco are a big plus. ^.^ And that cover! I love masks.

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Hi, I'm Caro [The Book Rogue]!
I'm an English-German indie translator for literature, avid reader and book blogger.
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